William Farnum

Acting · 0.8 popularity

Age

150

Movies

123

Born: July 3, 1876 – June 5, 1953
From: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Farnum (July 4, 1876 in Boston, Massachusetts – June 5, 1953 in Hollywood, California) was a major movie actor. One of three brothers, Farnum grew up in a family of actors. He made his acting debut at the age of ten in Richmond, Virginia in a production of Julius Caesar, with Edwin Booth playing the title character. His first major success was as the title character of Ben-Hur in 1900 though replacing the original actor Edward Morgan who premiered the character in 1899. Later plays Farnum appeared in were the costume epic The Prince of India (1906), The White Sister (1909) starring Viola Allen, The Littlest Rebel (1911) co-starring his brother Dustin and a child actress named Mary Miles Minter(then nine years old) & Arizona (1913) with Dustin and stage beauty Elsie Ferguson. In The Spoilers in 1914, Farnum and Tom Santschi staged a classic movie fight which lasted for a full reel. In 1930, Farnum and Stantschi coached Gary Cooper and William Boyd in the fight scene for the 1930 version of The Spoilers. Other actors influenced by the Farnum scene were Milton Sills and Noah Beery in 1922 and Randolph Scott and John Wayne in 1942. From 1915 to 1925, Farnum devoted his life to motion pictures. When becoming one of the biggest sensations in Hollywood, he also became one of the highest-paid actors, earning $10,000 a week. Farnum's silent pictures the western Drag Harlan(1920) and the drama-adventure If I Were King(1921) survive from his years contracted to Fox Films. Farnum has a "Star" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He was the younger brother of actor Dustin Farnum. He had another brother, Marshall Farnum, who was a silent film director and died in 1917. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Farnum, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

123 films

Samson and Delilah

19496.6

Lone Star

19525.7

Cleopatra

19346.1

A Woman's Face

19416.8

The Spoilers

19426.2

Captain Kidd

19456.3

Jack and the Beanstalk

19525.7

School for Girls

19347.5

The Adventurer

19208.0

The Corsican Brothers

19417.0

For Freedom

1918

Sharad of Atlantis

19364.5

Hollywood Story

19516.7

The Silver Bullet

19426.0

The Crusades

19356.4

The Perils of Pauline

19476.7

Samson

191510.0

The Mummy's Curse

19445.5

Bride of Vengeance

19495.4

If I Were King

19387.1

American Empire

19425.0

Git Along Little Dogies

19377.0

Maid of Salem

19376.2

Kit Carson

19406.1

Adventures of Red Ryder

19406.7

Mr. Robinson Crusoe

19326.3

Trail of Robin Hood

19506.3

Brass Commandments

19238.0

Tennessee Johnson

19426.4

Heart Strings

19208.0

Colorado Sunset

19397.0

A Connecticut Yankee

19316.1

The Painted Desert

19315.2

The Vigilantes Are Coming

19367.8

South of the Border

19396.0

Supernatural

19336.2

My Dog Shep

19466.3

Powdersmoke Range

193510.0

Convicted Woman

19404.6

A Tale of Two Cities

19174.8

Men of Texas

19429.0

Du Barry, Woman of Passion

19306.0

The Pagan Lady

19314.0

Public Cowboy No. 1

19376.2

The Bondman

1916

Hollywood Extra Girl

19357.5

Rolling Home

19465.7

Hi-Yo Silver

19407.0

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 2

19417.0

The Silver Streak

19346.9

Custer's Last Stand

19365.3

Gangs of Sonora

19418.0

Santa Fe Stampede

19385.6

The Eagle's Brood

19355.8

The Lone Ranger

19387.0

The Amazing Exploits of the Clutching Hand

19365.2

The Spoilers

19146.2

Wildfire

19454.0

The Man from Bitter Roots

1916

Rovin' Tumbleweeds

19395.7

Between Men

19356.3

Ten Nights in a Bar-room

19315.6

The Battle of Hearts

1916

A Stage Romance

19227.0

Flaming Guns

19327.5

The Man Who Fights Alone

19248.0

Custer's Last Stand

19368.0

Tropical Nights

19288.0

The Scarlet Letter

19345.1

God's Country

19467.0

Shine On Harvest Moon

19385.0

Mexicali Rose

19397.0

Les Misérables

19175.0

The Brand of Hate

19345.8

Frontier Badmen

19437.0

Law of the Sea

19316.3

The Kid Ranger

19364.5

Rough and Ready

1918

The Last of the Duanes

191910.0

Stolen by Gypsies or Beer and Bicycles

19331.0

Million Dollar Haul

19356.0

The Secret of Treasure Island

19384.5

Good Dame

19347.0

Deep in the Heart of Texas

19427.5

Moonshine Valley

19228.0

Lone Star Ranger

19425.3

Gun Cargo

19498.0

Without Compromise

19227.0

The Wide Open Spaces

19317.0

Boss of Hangtown Mesa

194210.0

The Conqueror

1917

Today I Hang

19425.7

Riders of the Purple Sage

1918

A Soldier's Oath

1915

The Joyous Trouble-Makers

19209.0

Reckless Decision

19335.3

Wings of the Morning

19194.0

Last of the Duanes

19416.5

The Scuttlers

19207.0

The Orphan

192010.0

The Gunfighter

19238.0

Daughter of the West

19498.0

The Drifter

19326.0

Happy Landing

193410.0

True Blue

1918

The Lone Star Ranger

19199.0

The Price of Silence

1917

Are We Civilized?

19346.0

Drag Harlan

19209.0

The Irish Gringo

19358.0

The Wonderful Adventure

19151.0

The Sign of the Cross

19145.1

If I Were King

192010.0

The Rainbow Trail

1918

Fires of Conscience

1916

His Greatest Sacrifice

19214.5

Shackles of Gold

19223.3

Wolves of the Night

19197.0

Perjury

192110.0

The Heart of a Lion

1917

American Methods

19171.0

The Man Hunter

19197.0

When a Man Sees Red

1917